Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.

Year	Winner	Film	Ref
2000	Steven Soderbergh	Traffic	^[1]
	Darren Aronofsky	Requiem for a Dream	^[1]
	Ang Lee	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	^[1]
2001	Baz Luhrmann	Moulin Rouge!
	Robert Altman	Gosford Park
	Wes Anderson	The Royal Tenenbaums
	David Lynch	Mulholland Drive
	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002	Stephen Daldry	The Hours	^[2]
	Roman Polanski	The Pianist
	Martin Scorsese	Gangs of New York
2003	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation
	Clint Eastwood	Mystic River
2004	Clint Eastwood	Million Dollar Baby
	Alexander Payne	Sideways
	Martin Scorsese	The Aviator
2005	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain
	George Clooney	Good Night, and Good Luck.
	David Cronenberg	A History of Violence
2006	Alfonso Cuarón	Children of Men
	Clint Eastwood	Letters from Iwo Jima
	Martin Scorsese	The Departed
2007	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
	Paul Thomas Anderson	There Will Be Blood
	Jason Reitman	Juno
2008	David Fincher	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	^[3]
	Danny Boyle	Slumdog Millionaire
	Gus Van Sant	Milk
2009	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker
	Jason Reitman	Up in the Air
	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds

Year	Winner	Film	Ref
2010	David Fincher	The Social Network	^[4]
	Darren Aronofsky	Black Swan
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	True Grit
2011	Terrence Malick	The Tree of Life	^[5]
	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	Martin Scorsese	Hugo
2012	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
	Ang Lee	Life of Pi
	Steven Spielberg	Lincoln
2013	Alfonso Cuaron	Gravity
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	Inside Llewyn Davis
	Steve McQueen	12 Years a Slave
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
	Wes Anderson	The Grand Budapest Hotel
2015	George Miller	Mad Max: Fury Road
	Todd Haynes	Carol
	Alejandro González Iñárritu	The Revenant
2016	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea
	Damien Chazelle	La La Land
	Denis Villeneuve	Arrival
2017	Paul Thomas Anderson	Phantom Thread
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird
	Christopher Nolan	Dunkirk
2018	Paul Schrader	First Reformed	^[6]
	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma	^[7]
	Yorgos Lanthimos	The Favourite	^[7]
2019	Bong Joon-ho	Parasite	^[8]
	Sam Mendes	1917	^[9]
	Martin Scorsese	The Irishman	^[9]

Year	Winner	Film	Ref
2020	Chloé Zhao	Nomadland	^[10]
	David Fincher	Mank	^[11]
	Thomas Vinterberg	Another Round	^[11]
2021	Denis Villeneuve	Dune	^[12]
	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast	^[13]
	Jane Campion	The Power of the Dog	^[13]
2022	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sceinert	Everything Everywhere All at Once	^[14]
	Todd Field	Tár	^[15]
	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin	^[15]
2023	Christopher Nolan	Oppenheimer	^[16]
	Jonathan Glazer	The Zone of Interest	^[17]
	Martin Scorsese	Killers of the Flower Moon	^[17]
2024	Denis Villeneuve	Dune: Part Two	^[18]
	Sean Baker	Anora
	RaMell Ross	Nickel Boys

Winners